Instrumentation, Innovation and Collaboration: Improving the Biochemistry Curriculum through Hands-On and Virtual Laboratory Experiences

仪器、创新与协作：通过实践和虚拟实验室体验改进生物化学课程

• 批准号: 0941855
• 负责人: Stephen Cooke
• 金额: $ 24.77万
• 依托单位: SUNY College at Purchase
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-07-15 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0941855&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Instrumentation; Innovation; Collaboration; Improving; Biochemistry

Chemistry (12)SUNY College at Purchase is partnering with six local community colleges, Dutchess Community College, Nassau Community College, Orange County Community College, Rockland Community College, Sullivan County Community College, and Westchester Community College, to develop hands-on and virtual biochemistry laboratory experiences to prepare undergraduate students for further study or employment in STEM fields. With the acquisition of spectrophotometers at the community colleges and at Purchase College, and the additional acquisition of a fluorimeter and a high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) instrument at Purchase College, faculty at these institutions are integrating state-of-the-art instrumentation into coursework, with the aim of providing students with direct experience in the techniques and applications of instrumentation commonly used in biochemical and pharmaceutical industries. Purchase College faculty are adapting two kinetics experiments for biochemistry students to utilize these instruments and also use greener processes, and they are developing a laboratory experiment for students in organic chemistry to study E2 elimination via UV-vis spectroscopy. The experiments are being used in laboratory courses at Purchase College and also at the community college partners. The three experiments developed through this project are being disseminated through presentations at conferences and publication in peer-reviewed chemical education journals. Faculty at Purchase College and Dutchess Community College are also working with the Teaching, Learning and Technology Center at Purchase College to develop interactive multi-media teaching modules to introduce this instrumentation to students at the six partner community colleges, in order to increase their exposure to biochemical instrumentation methods. Twelve faculty from the partner community colleges are receiving training on all of the instruments through a summer workshop, and the project team is setting up instrumentation with them on their campuses and providing follow-up support to the community college faculty during the academic year in using the instruments in their courses. Students from the six community colleges are also engaging in summer research experiences at Purchase College. The project evaluation is monitoring how many students are impacted, and is examining the extent to which the new laboratory exercises promote student understanding of the use of modern biochemistry instrumentation and the analytical methods they make possible, the extent to which the investigative curriculum promotes student engagement with and understanding of core biochemistry concepts, and the extent to which new curriculum modifications promote improved outcomes for independent student research projects. The evaluation is also studying the impact of the summer training on the community college faculty, the impact of the summer research experiences on the community college students, and the effectiveness of the multimedia simulations in promoting student engagement and learning outcomes and providing an investigative experience for students when they do not have direct access to the instruments.

纽约州立大学化学学院正在与六所当地社区学院合作，分别是达奇斯社区学院、拿骚社区学院、奥兰治县社区学院、罗克兰社区学院、沙利文县社区学院和威彻斯特社区学院，以开发动手和虚拟生物化学实验室经验，为本科生在STEM领域的进一步学习或就业做好准备。随着社区学院和普切斯学院购置了分光光度计，以及普切斯学院购置了荧光仪和高效液相色谱仪，这些机构的教师正在将最先进的仪器设备整合到课程中，目的是为学生提供生物化学和制药行业常用仪器技术和应用的直接经验。购买学院的教师正在为生物化学学生调整两个动力学实验，以使用这些仪器，并使用更环保的过程，他们正在为有机化学学生开发一个实验室实验，通过紫外-可见光谱研究E2的消除。这些实验被用在普切斯学院和社区学院的实验课程中。通过这个项目开发的三个实验正在通过在会议上的演讲和在同行评议的化学教育期刊上的出版物进行传播。普切斯学院和杜特切斯社区学院的教师也与普切斯学院的教学、学习和技术中心合作，开发交互式多媒体教学模块，向六所合作社区学院的学生介绍这种仪器，以增加他们对生化仪器方法的了解。来自合作社区学院的12名教师正在通过夏季研讨会接受所有仪器的培训，项目团队正在他们的校园里安装仪器，并在学年期间为社区学院的教师提供后续支持，帮助他们在课程中使用这些仪器。来自这六所社区学院的学生也在普切斯学院进行暑期研究体验。该项目的评估是监测有多少学生受到影响，并检查新的实验室练习在多大程度上促进了学生对现代生物化学仪器的使用及其分析方法的理解，以及研究性课程在多大程度上促进了学生对核心生物化学概念的参与和理解。以及新课程修改在多大程度上促进了独立学生研究项目成果的改善。评估还研究了暑期培训对社区大学教师的影响，暑期研究经验对社区大学学生的影响，以及多媒体模拟在促进学生参与和学习成果方面的有效性，并为没有直接接触仪器的学生提供调查体验。